NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 75

HOUSE BILL 265

 

 

AN ACT AMENDING SECTION 7 OF HOUSE BILL 50 OF THE 1959 SESSION, RATIFIED FEBRUARY 24, 1959, AND REWRITING SECTION 9 OF THE SAID ACT RELATING TO PRIMARY AND GENERAL ELECTIONS IN THE TOWN OF ROCKWELL IN ROWAN COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. That Section 7 of House Bill 50 of the 1959 Session, ratified on February 24, 1959, be and the same is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"The registration books shall be kept open at the polling places for the registration of voters and for challenges between the hours of 9:00 o'clock A. M. and 6:00 o'clock P. M. on the Saturday between the primary and the general election."

Sec. 2. That Section 9 of House Bill 50 of the 1959 Session, ratified on February 24, 1959, be and the same is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"All primary municipal elections and general municipal elections shall be conducted, as far as practicable in all things and in all details, in accordance with the provisions of Article 3, Chapter 160 of the General Statutes, except where the provisions of same are inconsistent with this Act. All the provisions of this Act shall apply to the 1959 municipal primary and general election in the Town of Rockwell and to all subsequent municipal primaries and general elections in said town."

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of March, 1959.